Blad 119 uit Stamboek van de leerlingen der Koloniale School voor Meisjes en Vrouwen te 's-Gravenhage deel II (1930-1949) Possibly 1939

This is a page, "Blad 119", from a student registry from a Colonial school for girls, made around the mid-20th century. It seems to have come into being through the bureaucratic hand, writing names, addresses, and personal details with a fountain pen, maybe a dip pen. I feel an intimate connection to this work. Imagine the writer, hunched over, filling the blanks, lost in a world of administrative procedure. There is a photo of one of the students, C.Y. Suber, glued onto the page, like a little window into her life. The ink varies in thickness, pooling in places, creating a topography of textures. Look at the signatures! Each one unique, a gesture of identity. This feels like a document of transition, a bridge between worlds, like the work of On Kawara, who methodically documents time. It's about the slow accumulation of details. Art is always in dialogue, isn’t it? Each artist responding to what came before, imagining what might come next.